Reveal a moral bankruptcy of capitalism we talked to the president of the u. K. Faculty of Public Health use that phrase to characterize the response to a previous epidemic as the tory government stands accused even by a tory media of lethal incompetence disinfo nation and lies and will coronavirus destroy Sleepy Joe Biden as john says of beating donald trump while the antibodies stand as democrats establishment threatens to risk their lives rather than put spode in tomorrows wisconsin primary we trace how todays politics is shaped from beyond the biosphere and how novembers election could be determined by an ancient american see a little more coming up in todays going underground but 1st after the u. S. A medically supported by the Russian Military slammed Boris Johnsons response to the corona virus pandemic britain faces the prospect of millions now infected because the Prime Ministers aborted herd immunity policy for more lets go straight to the former president of the u. K. Faculty
Thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r. T. International. The latest figures in the covert 900 pandemic the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1200000 the us has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy 70000 people have lost their lives and 271000 people have recovered. Germanys accuse the u. S. Of modern day piracy for that italy seizing a plane load of respirators in thailand which was intended for berlin the u. S. President this week invoked wartime powers to prevent other countries from getting hold of protective facemasks during the ongoing pandemic donald trump defended the move we need the masks we dont want other people getting and thats why were thats why were instituting a lot of defense production act. You could call it retaliations because thats what it is its a retaliation if people dont if people dont give us what we need for our people were going to be very tough and weve been very tough usually we dont have to use
From beyond the biosphere and how novembers election could be determined by an ancient american see a little more coming up in todays going underground but 1st after the u. S. A medically supported by the Russian Military slammed Boris Johnsons response to the corona virus pandemic britain faces the prospect of millions now infected because the Prime Ministers aborted a herd immunity policy for more lets go straight to the former president of the u. K. Faculty of Public Health Professor John ashton who joins me now via skype from denton the Yorkshire Dales john thanks so much for coming on so jump officials have used the lack of ventilators to a contrast of the countrys responses to coronavirus this week were supposed to get 30 new ventilators manufactured with much trumpeting by miss sadies and mclaren will they make a big difference to what were now facing here in britain im afraid the desperate shortage of ventilators has to be considered alongside the faily its hasta shortage oh. P
Let me begin with the numbers in the research you have been looking at. As you look at the trends tonight, what do they tell you . Dr. Mokdad we peaked on april 10 and they are coming down for the whole country but there are many states that are still going up and others are going down. Host how do you do your study . Dr. Mokdad we decided to model mortality on a daily basis and we used experience we have seen in china, italy, and spain. We reverse engineered the mortality how many beds we will need in the hospital and how many ventilators. So we know in the United States how many patients were admitted. Host at one point there was an expectation we could have 230,000 deaths and that number has come down, correct . Dr. Mokdad true. Our numbers have always been less than 100,000. The numbers have been coming down because of social distancing is working. Host can you look ahead at hotspots like new york city and miami and in Nursing Homes . How do you incorporate that into your data . Dr
And close on time. Solving this problem but he quietus political commitment and quality goods coordination. And to build a living. Also coming up the pandemics and social distancing in what it means for us when we want to reach for those d we love the most tonight messages of the heart from the big apple my daughter came up. Im. I cant even really give her the embrace and the casts that i want to give her this is all true and this story and. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with almost 2000000000 people staying at home and practically every country in the world now reporting king says of the coronavirus as a 2nd week of walk downs begins the epicenter of the pandemic has migrated from italy to new york state new york city alone has more than 20000 confirmed cases and the mayor today warned that hospitals will run out of life saving ventilators by the end of the week today the World Health Organization said the global tall